Now in their eleventh year, the Sustainable & ESG Investment Awards offer an opportunity to showcase expertise and commitment to investment factors that take into account environmental, social and ethical criteria as well as good corporate behaviour.

In this magazine, brought to you in association with Prudential Portfolio Management Group, explores how managers can adapt to this new era of multi-asset freedom, correctly assess ‘bigger picture' challenges as well as short-term tactical movements and, most importantly, ensure investors' needs are continually placed at the heart of the investment process.

Despite the underperformance of fixed income we discuss in this Spotlight guide why the value proposition of the asset class hasn't gone away. In particular we review how the RLAM management team use existing, proven funds to actively manage consistent monthly income streams and adapt the portfolio to changing interest rate and credit market factors.

HL investor confidence indexes

The Hargreaves Lansdown Investor Confidence index fell 10 points from 78 to 68 between June and July continuing its downward slide from a six-month peak of 80 in May.

The average reading of the index, which measures the confidence of retail investors in the UK market over six-month, one-year and three-year periods, was 74 over the last 12 months while the long-term...

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